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  1. Culture and parenting: Polish migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse Irish neighbourhood

    Article • Journal of Family Studies, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  2. Incarcerated mothers’ experience of adversity heard using participatory mixed-method research

    Article • Probation Journal, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  3. Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  4. Realizing the potential of a strengths‐based approach in family support with young people and their parents

    Article • Child & Family Social Work, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  5. Protective Support and Supportive Protection: Critical Reflections on Safe Practice and Safety in Supervision

    Article • Social Sciences, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  6. Family Support and the Media in Ireland: Newspaper Content Analysis 2014–2017

    Article • Child Care in Practice, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  7. Understanding contemporary Family Support: Reflections on theoretical and conceptual frameworks

    Article • Social Work and Social Sciences Review, May 2020, Whiting & Birch, Ltd.

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  8. A Framework to Inform Protective Support and Supportive Protection in Child Protection and Welfare Practice and Supervision

    Article • Social Sciences, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  9. Editorial

    Article • Child Care in Practice, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  10. Exploring the multi-dimensionality of permanence and stability: Emotions, experiences and temporality in young people’s discourses about long-term foster care in Ireland

    Article • Qualitative Social Work, August 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  11. Protective Support and Supportive Protection for families

    Article • Child & Family Social Work, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  12. A Critical Overview of the Significance of Power and Power Relations in Practice with Children in Foster Care: Evidence from an Irish Study

    Article • Child Care in Practice, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  13. Practice guidance for culturally sensitive practice in working with children and families who are asylum seekers: learning from an early years study in Ireland

    Article • Child Care in Practice, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney, Sheila Garrity

  14. Permanence and Stability for Children in Care in Ireland

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, September 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  15. Family Support and substance use

    Article • Child Care in Practice, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  16. An Informed Pedagogy of Community, Care, and Respect for Diversity: Evidence from a Qualitative Evaluation of Early Years Services in the West of Ireland

    Article • Child Care in Practice, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  17. Early Implementation of a Family-Centred Practice Model in Child Welfare: Findings from an Irish Case Study

    Article • Practice, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  18. Promoting children's welfare through Family Support

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  19. Parenting Support: Policy and Practice in the Irish Context

    Article • Child Care in Practice, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  20. Hoping for a better tomorrow: a qualitative study of stressors, informal social support and parental coping in a Direct Provision centre in the West of Ireland

    Article • Journal of Family Studies, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  21. Child protection and family support practice in Ireland: a contribution to present debates from a historical perspective

    Article • Child & Family Social Work, December 2016, Wiley

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  22. Supporting incarcerated mothers in Ireland with their familial relationships; a case for the revival of the social work role

    Article • Probation Journal, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  23. Historical pathways to informal and formal help systems in Ireland

    Article • Administration, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  24. Recruiting and Retaining Older Adult Volunteers: Implications for Practice

    Article • Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Carmel Devaney

  25. Maintaining the mother–child relationship within the Irish prison system: the practitioner perspective

    Article • Child Care in Practice, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  26. A Review of Children First and Keeping Safe Training in Ireland: Implications for the Future

    Article • Child Care in Practice, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  27. The Value of Family Welfare Conferencing within the Child Protection and Welfare System

    Article • Child Care in Practice, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  28. Voice and meaning: the wisdom of Family Support veterans

    Article • Child & Family Social Work, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  29. Enhancing Family Support in Practice through Postgraduate Education

    Article • Social Work Education, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  30. The ethics of randomized controlled trials in social settings: can social trials be scientifically promising and must there be equipoise?

    Article • International Journal of Research & Method in Education, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Carmel Devaney

  31. The association between academic self-beliefs and reading achievement among children at risk of reading failure

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Carmel Devaney

  32. A one-to-one programme for at-risk readers

    Article • Review of Education, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Carmel Devaney

  33. A one-to-one programme for at-risk readers delivered by older adult volunteers

    Article • Review of Education, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Carmel Devaney

  34. The utility of the Simple View of Reading

    Article • Journal of Education and Training Studies, March 2013, Redfame Publishing

    Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Carmel Devaney

  35. Family Support and Child Protection: Natural Bedfellows

    Article • Practice, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney

  36. A Family Support Model of Responding to Tragic Events

    Article • Child Care in Practice, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmel Devaney